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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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Love alone could waken love.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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All birth is unwilling.
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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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